Iowa Ram Progeny Station Well Along on First Test
Boone report on the Iowa Ram Progeny Improvement Assn station at the county fairground shows capacity use despite funding delays. Fifty three pens hold ram lambs from multiple states with entries costing 25 dollars per pen, and plans call for two carcass data lambs per lot to be slaughtered at Iowa State University meat laboratory.
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Melody Worley
Tom Wickersham
Iowa State University Extension
Iowa Ram Progeny Improvement Assn
Ely
Boone County Fairground
Boone
Melody
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Kan
Wickersham
Iowa Ram
Iowa Department of Agriculture
Fairground
Association
Iowa
Ilinois
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
Minnesota
Michigan
Columbia
Corriedale
Montadale
Iowa State University
Ag Honor Society Initiates 113 At Iowa State University
Ames Iowa The Gamma Sigma Delta honor society will initiate 113 members at Memorial Union Monday evening Involvement includes two alumni seven staff members 56 graduate students and 48 undergraduates Induction features Wayne Scholtes ISU agronomy professor with talk I Have Been Where You Are Going Names include Kenneth Dolezal Gary Petrak Dennis Arp Don Schuchart Loren Mattke Gordon Hess Francis Pisney Gary Bell Robert Meyer Clinton Burrow James Walther Ed Mastelier and Larry Vint among inductees
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Loren Mattke
Fredericksburg
Gordon Hess
Grundy Center
Francis Pisney
Lime Springs
Gary Bell
Muscatine
Robert Meyer
Sumner
Clinton Burrow
Tripoli
Charles Ruehle
Vinton
James Walther
Waverly
Ed Mastelier
Independence
Larry Vint
Marshalltown
Milking Shorthorn Award for Iowans
Two Iowa Milking Shorthorn breeders won the American Milking Shorthorn Association Progressive Breeder award at the Springfield meeting. Irvin F. Meyer of McGregor and Wallace McKee of Carlisle earned the honor for the fifth and third times respectively, meeting herd criteria and show participation requirements.
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Springfield
Iowa
American Milking Shorthorn Association
Irvin F. Meyer
McGregor
Wallace McKee
Carlisle
Carlson's Corner Leisure-Land and Its Domino Game
A lighthearted column notes uncertain U S weather with pleasant mornings and cold evenings, urging planting corn despite busy work. It contrasts busy life with Leisure-Land where warm breezes, sun-tanned natives, and a domino game prevail, recounting carefree living and a tolerance for relaxed laws.
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U.S
Christas
Small Fruit Sessions At Castalia Calmar
Winneshiek County extension director E J Weigle announced two small fruit meetings on April 29. Ed Cott will demonstrate management of grapes strawberries raspberries and other small fruits at 9 am north of Castalia, and at 10 30 am at the Mike Herold farm northwest of Calmar.
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Decorah
Winneshirk
E. J. Weigle
Ed Cott
Henry Schultz
Castalia
Mike Herold
Calmar
Wool incentive payments total for Linn County in 1966
Federal wool incentive payments to Linn County sheep men for 1966 marketings totaled $9,999.32, according to Richard P. Louvar, county ASCS chairman. Payments were issued on shorn wool and unshorn lambs to raise producers’ returns to the 65 cents per pound support level. The 1967 support level has been set at 66 cents per pound.
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Linn County
Richard P. Louvar
County
ASCS
Nature Study School Planned in Elkader
Elkader hosts a nature study meeting in May from 10 a.m. to 2 30 p.m. at the shelter house in Elkader park. Extension wildlife specialist Bob Moorman leads a session for 4 H leaders Scout leaders and other interested adults. All nature lovers are invited.
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Elkader
Bob Moorman
Elkader Park
Farming cooperatives and market power through history
An Ames piece reviews the Hoover Farm Board era and the rise and limits of farm cooperatives. It traces 1920s and 1930s efforts to use producer-owned marketing bodies to curb surpluses, noting the Farm Board’s faith, the Fess-Tinchner and McNary-Haugen efforts, and the lone survivor National Livestock Producers Assn. while concluding cooperatives alone could not control national market prices.
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Great Atlantic
Pacific Tea Company
Freeman
Nus
Hoover Farm Board
McNary-Haugen
House
Nils A. Olsen
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Senate
Hoover
Farm Board
National Livestock Producers Agsn
Farm Board Report
Ames Meeting Delivers Price Picture From Slaughter Data
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman cites higher market supplies as the cause of lower farm prices. Federally inspected beef slaughter for the week ending April 15 was 548000 head with 332.6 million pounds produced, up from 499000 head and 299 million pounds a year earlier. Chicago steers averaged 24.78 per cwt, down from 28.61. Hog slaughter reached 1456000 head and pork output 219.9 million pounds, vs 1270000 head and 192.4 million pounds a year prior. Hog prices averaged 17.70, down from 22.84, with analysis noting supply-price dynamics and noting pork production gains have not collapsed prices as sharply. The article notes pork production rose about 14 percent while live hog prices fell about 22 percent, and suggests price changes follow supply shifts, with cuts in pork boosting prices.
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Ames
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Choice
Chicago
Soil Conservation Art And Scrapbook Contest Held In Monticello
Anamosa Izaak Walton League and Jones County soil conservation district host the twenty first annual conservation poster and scrapbook contest at the Youth center on county fairground. Ape through eighth grade entries from schools across the county will be shown from 1 to 3 pm with winners announced at 3 pm. Rose Austin reports 203 posters and 70 scrapbooks entered, the scrapbook total a record high.
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Anamosa
Izaak Walton League
Jones County Soil Conservation District
Monticello
Rose Austin
Soil Conservation District
Watch Summer Water Supply Warns Cattlemen In Iowa
Dr H L Self warns cattlemen that summer water shortages threaten farms relying on ponds and shallow wells. Experts from Iowa State and other institutions outline expected daily water needs for steers and sheep, judging schedules for carcass lambs, breeding sheep, and wool show entries with noon and evening events in June.
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Ames
Jong
Dave
Topel
Robert Rust
H. L. Self
Owa State
Gary Ricketts
Iowa University of Illinois
Joe State University
Lee
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Don Warner
Towa State
Beef Supply Still Large Says USDA
USDA reports the cattle on feed April 1 totaled 10.5 million, down from 11.1 million January 1, with lighter cattle dropping 14 percent year over year and heavy cattle 1,100 pounds plus rising 35 percent. The April inventory was modestly above a year earlier, while total potential beef tonnage remains a market factor.
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USDA
Washington
Census Bureau
Agriculture Department
Judges Named for National Lamb Show
The third annual National Lamb Show at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids June 6 8 will judge live lamb progeny pens and breeding sheep. Prof. Jack Judy of Ohio State University will lead the judging per officials.
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Jack Judy
Ohio State University
Hawkeye Downs
Cedar Rapids
Linn Delegates to Washington for Citizenship Short Course
First orientation for Linn county delegates to the national 4-H citizenship short course in Washington will be held May 2 at 8 p.m. in the Marion Christian church. A second meeting is scheduled for May 31.
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Linn County
Washington
Marion Christian Church
West Germany Rules May Hit U.S. Farm Exports
The U S Agriculture Department says West Germany's new pesticide law may block American farm products by setting lower residue tolerances. Effective next Jan 1 the rules aim to protect consumers from chemical residues, often allowing less residue than U S standards.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
West Germany
Department
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